| NOTAS: | By report the Boston Consulting Group
"BCG estimates that this infrastructure upgrade, if delivered exclusively via fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) approach, will cost €660 billion, which represents about 25 years of investing at the current pace. Clearly these investments will have to be funded in large part by the private sector. A time frame of 25 years is not in line with the Gigabit Society objectives set by the European Commission. Accelerating the investment pace will be a significant challenge because willingness to pay substantially more for higher broadband speeds is limited and the returns on investments in the telecom industry have been historically low over the past years." |
